While lawsuits may be routine for the business world these days, this was not so for the access technology industry until Freedom Scientific came along. Manufacturers of access technology were a lot more civil in the days of Henter-Joyce, Blazie Engineering and Arkenstone, the companies that merged to form Freedom Scientific. While I'm sure the owners profited handsomely from the sale of their companies, I know of at least one that said he made a mistake. I will say that I agree with Dean Blazie.
Gary King w4wkz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx----- Original Message ----- From: "Farfar Carlson" <dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 11:26 AM Subject: Re: [Follow] Freedom Scientific introduces bugs intentionally!
I think Dorothy first brought it up. Perhaps she has some details. Personally I don't really care, since lawsuits are becoming de regeur for any business concern. Dave----- Original Message ----- From: "Yadiel" <yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 09:16 Subject: Re: [Follow] Freedom Scientific introduces bugs intentionally! Hello everybody:I have heard a lot of mention about the FS law suits... Would anyone care toexplain what they are and what are the reasons for them? Yadiel -------------------------------------------------- From: "Cy Selfridge" <cyselfridge@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 9:24 AM To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: RE: [Follow] Freedom Scientific introduces bugs intentionally!Farfar, wash out your mouth. (LOLLOLLOL) Stuck with ME, God forbid. (LOL) Cy, The Anasazi -----Original Message-----From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On BehalfOf Farfar Carlson Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 10:56 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [Follow] Freedom Scientific introduces bugs intentionally! Well, not to digress even more off topic, but I have to suggest that Microsoft's launch of Windows 7 was driven less by user complaints of Vista than by the competition being offered by Apple. If Microsoft had a non-competitive market, we'd still be stuck with Windows ME. Dave----- Original Message ----- From: "Armond" <armond1980@xxxxxxxxx>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 21:26 Subject: [Follow] Freedom Scientific introduces bugs intentionally!Well, guys, whether or not JAWS has been or is tremendously helpful to thevisually impaired is simply beyond the point. No one can or should deny the fact that JAWS has been helping thousands of users in a variety of context. However, that doesn't mean the follies of its developers should be ignored. That would be like, say, having ignored Windows Vista's multitudinous problems and headaches simply because Microsoft has been developing different permutations of Windows for so long. On the other hand, what we now call a positive experience, or simply a better experience, with Windows 7 is the direct consequence of user complaints and taking into account those glitches. Now who can deny the usefulness of Windows? On a similar topic, isn't iPhone a revolutionary product with its full-fledged screen reader, helping many visually impaired people all over the world with its cornucopia of apps and functions? But this doesn't prevent users from complaining about rather serious antenna issues with the 4th generation of iPhones. Likewise, when we simply state that Freedom Scientific is moving in the wrong direction with its approach toward beta testing and bug handling--andI don't want to mention the issue of the frequency of major upgrades whichunnecessarily kill SMA licenses, it doesn't mean that we excoriate the whole history of JAWS from the HJ days forward. Rather, it's just meant to keepboth the user community and, hopefully, the developers aware of the issueswhich have beleagured JAWS. As for this particular bug, why should people buy extra language packs when Unicode support in combination with a TTS engine can do the job? And this has been the case for some years and is still the case with other screen readers which support Unicode. And, lastbut not least, this has nothing to do with international sanctions againsta particular country; rather, it's a totally technical issue as, say, Arabcountries aren't under any particular sanctions whatsoever. Imagine havingto purchase JAWS language packs from certain dealers in order to be able to read and write in Russian, Greek, and Polish. -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. 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